So I have finally woken up from my slumber, with a post whose context & technology space is a bit unorthodox from my blog . But that’s natural, given that for almost a year now, I have involved in developing my eCommerce Platform smartStores – a scalable and robust eCommerce…

Introduction Vendor History TerminalFour was founded in 1996 by the then-Dublin City University student Piero Tintori. What started off as a few one-off projects in Ireland gradually developed into solution that is now known as Site Manager. This development was done in collaboration with two of TerminalFour’s customers. With the…

Last week was pretty busy for me!! There’s a lot that happened in the India eRetail (refers to eCommerce in Retail ) and I was trying to keep pace with it. I first attend the Indian eRetail Congress 2012 – a two day seminar organized by Franchise India; and then…

www.letsbuy.com, www.flipkart.com, www.mydala.com, www.99lables.com, www.lenskart.com are just some of the few ecommerce storefronts that have spun off in the recently part. Targeted for the Indian consumer, these ecommerce portals have not only made it big for their young entrepreneur but have also set the stage for the broader acceptance of…

eCommerce implementation are complex and each implementation has it’s own uniqueness. That said, like any other technology stack implementation, these implementation too can be broadly classified based on commonalities that exist amongst them. These commonalities are based on the scenarios that these implementation cater to and can be looked at…

Joomla, one of the leading Open Source CMS, today launched Joomla! 2.5. Keep in mind that this is a new release of the Joomla! CMS layer and is based on Joomla! Platform 11.4. Just to refresh your memory, with Joomla! 1.7 Joomla! Platform (formerly known as “framework”) was separated from…

I guess most of you would agree with me when I say that the portal marketplace has pretty much matured – most portals vendors offer significantly similar features, and all the probable acquisitions have already taken place. On the other hand, one of Portal’s complementary marketplaces has probably just hit…

eBay was one of the most notable successes during the dot com boom. One of the reason being that eBay offered an enormous opportunity to individuals and small merchants by opening up the huge online marketplace from them. That said the large merchants or enterprises typically stayed away from this…